[Masonmail-developers] FYI

[Tom A. <tal...@ta...>]

Using Benchmark and Mail::IMAPClient I did some benchmarking on the 
connection times and authentication.

Connect: typically 0.01 seconds or less.
Authentication: 0.05 seconds.
Logout + Close: 0.01 seconds.

As a comparison, the time it takes to fetch information on
message_count
recent_count
unseen_count
for a given folder is <= 0.01 seconds.

So, Authentication is the lions share of the process, not counting the 
time it takes to actually retrieve a message.